Herd

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herd

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Votey

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Grampa, how do I form my own identity? How do I not be part of the herd?

Get old.

Just age and one day you'll wake up and you'll be unique. You'll have weirdly particular opinions on music and on food and on movies and books. You will possess genuinely angry feelings about the particular way your neighbor rakes leaves.

Your generically upright symmetrical teenage body will have bent into forms undreamt by any branch of evolution!

You'll wish you could just naturally fall in with a group, but you're so riddled with pointless hangups that trying to get along with ten contemporaries is like trying to fit ten porcupines in a suitcase!

The herd was goddamned fantastic, boy! Conform to whatever it wants for as long as you can! Peer pressure was steering you toward happiness!

Peer pressure says to drink and do drugs and have unprotected sex.

See how brilliant it is?

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I wish I'd never been true to myself for a single second. P

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